Another player has emerged in the race to create a reliable AI video generator – none other than Netflix. Researchers from the streaming giant were involved in the development of Go-with-the-Flow, a new model that aims to provide an easy way to control motion patterns in video diffusion models.

Wall Street's indexes rose on Wednesday, with the benchmark S&P 500 hitting an intraday record high as investors cheered streaming video provider Netflix's quarterly report and President Donald Trump's private-sector artificial intelligence infrastructure investment plan.

Wall Street closed higher, with the S&P 500 index scoring an all-time high. Blowout Netflix results and plans for $500b AI investment fuel gains.

President Donald Trump's boost to AI demand hopes is outweighing fresh tariff threats on China and the EU, as earnings season rolls on.

Trump vowed to hit the "very, very bad" European Union with tariffs and said his administration was also discussing a 10% punitive duty on Chinese imports - blaming the trafficking of fentanyl from China to the U.S. via Mexico and Canada.

Japan's Nikkei Stock Average rose 0.8% to close at 39958.87 amid risk-on sentiment. "Equities worldwide continued to ride on the wave of U.S.' AI investment announcement, as well as blowout earnings from streaming giant Netflix,

Wall Street's main indexes rose on Wednesday, with the benchmark S&P 500 hitting a record high, as investors cheered streaming video provider Netflix's quarterly report and technology shares rallied after the announcement of a private-sector artificial intelligence infrastructure plan.

Netflix, Oracle and other technology stocks lifted U.S. indexes as their profits pile higher and excitement builds around the moneymaking prospects of artificial intelligence. The S&P 500 rose 0.6% Wednesday and closed just shy of the record it set in early December.

U.S. stock index futures rose on Wednesday, led by those tied to the Nasdaq, as investors cheered streaming giant Netflix's strong quarterly performance and President Donald Trump's multi-billion dollar support to bolster AI infrastructure.

The criticism directed at The Brutalist has also shone a light on Netflix's own Oscars hopeful, Emilia Pérez, a musical directed by Jacques Audiard about a cartel boss looking to retire and transition into living as a woman. In the movie, Karla Sofìa Gascón's singing voice was enhanced using AI.

All told, the S&P 500 rose 37.13 points, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 130.92 and the Nasdaq composite jumped 252.56.